Is this dirty?

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I have cleaners come every forthright. They basically do a deep clean of the whole house-hoover, mop, kitchen, all bathrooms, all bedrooms, all polishing downstairs etc, plus the upstairs banging and terrace at the front. Plus change beds and clean oven and fridge, clean windows.
In-between this I keep it tidy (toddler, so it’s tricky!) clean and bleach toilets and obviously keep kitchen clean, wash dishes after use.
Am I doing enough or is this unacceptable? I’d ideally love them to do this every week not fortnight, but it’s pricey and they’re busy with other clients.

It’s perfectly fine!

I change my bed... occasionally. Just too tired and busy. My kids’ beds get done occasionally too 😂

I’m sure your house is MUCH cleaner than ours! No, I wouldn’t clean floors in between unless needed.

And what are people mopping?

Having reread it, there are some things I do far more often than you (hoover, mop, change bedding etc) and some i do far less (cleaning windows and oven, for example).

@JanetHandjob

And what are people mopping?

Their houses’ non-carpeted, non-wooden floors.

@JanetHandjob

And what are people mopping?

The floor?

Those of you who change bedding weekly: how can you be bothered to do the ironing that is involved in bedding-changes? I can cope with that every 2-3 weeks, but not every bloody week.

Ironing bedding? Who the hell wastes time doing that? I'm a house proud neat freak and I've never ironed my sheets. Take them out of the dryer promptly, fold, and they're fine.

I forget to change the sheets sometimes but I'm not sure my DH has ever changed the sheets of his own accord, why is is it nearly always women? (Assuming all the punctual sheet changers on here are women!)

Those of you who change bedding weekly: how can you be bothered to do the ironing that is involved in bedding-changes? I can cope with that every 2-3 weeks, but not every bloody week

I change my bedding weekly. I don’t iron it.

@Aquamarine1029

Those of you who change bedding weekly: how can you be bothered to do the ironing that is involved in bedding-changes? I can cope with that every 2-3 weeks, but not every bloody week.

Ironing bedding? Who the hell wastes time doing that? I'm a house proud neat freak and I've never ironed my sheets. Take them out of the dryer promptly, fold, and they're fine.

This just shows how very different we all are. I absolutely can't be arsed about cleaning, but I couldn't sleep in unironed bedding.

Thanks for the mopping clarification, @TheOneWithTheBigNose and @EileenGC . I have 200 yr old floorboards which wouldn't take kindly to a mop. I do hoover them if I am expecting visitors, though.

@JanetHandjob

Those of you who change bedding weekly: how can you be bothered to do the ironing that is involved in bedding-changes? I can cope with that every 2-3 weeks, but not every bloody week.

What’s ironing? Do you seriously iron your bed linen?

Am also going to slink away as I last cleaned the inside of my Aga about 5 years ago.

I have tiles in the kitchen, utility room and bathrooms. They’re the rooms I mop.

Or will slink, once I have answered @Alsohuman

Yes I jolly well do. I couldn't sleep in crumpled bed linen. Everything else may be all doggy and dusty and whatnot, but no, no, no to unironed bedding.

Bloody hell. Fortnightly fridge cleans, walls and skirting boards washed, carpets shampooed. Be lucky if these got done twice a year here! ( ok, the fridge a bit more often. Maybe).

Yes I jolly well do. I couldn't sleep in crumpled bed linen. Everything else may be all doggy and dusty and whatnot, but no, no, no to unironed bedding.

How does your bed linen get so crumpled?

@JanetHandjob

Or will slink, once I have answered *@Alsohuman*

Yes I jolly well do. I couldn't sleep in crumpled bed linen. Everything else may be all doggy and dusty and whatnot, but no, no, no to unironed bedding.

Doesn’t it crumple when you sleep in it? I take mine out of the tumble dryer and fold straight away. It isn’t particularly crumpled.

@JanetHandjob

Am also going to slink away as I last cleaned the inside of my Aga about 5 years ago.

That's probably more recent than our fridge has been cleaned. I think our kitchen floor has been mopped twice in about 5 years and it doesn't even look dirty.

Can't believe that people do these things weekly, or even more often. As for ironing bedding, that's mad. Just why?

No carpets where I come from (Spain) and it was one of my favourite chores as a child, to mop the whole 4 bedroom flat. Rarely allowed to do so, as my mum couldn’t stand how slowly I did it compared to her When I moved to the UK I was really disappointed to find out I wouldn’t be mopping the whole house weekly.

I also like to iron my bedding. I don’t have a dryer or big enough airers for a double duvet cover to be spread out and dry nicely and crease-free. I cannot put creased bedding on my bed. It takes 5 mins to iron and the satisfaction after doing it is immense.

Why do you need other people's acceptance of your personal choices?

This. Blows my mind and I always wonder whether these things are actually humble brags as otherwise why go on the internet and ask a bunch of ransoms to endorse your choices?

As a species we are fairly immune to dirt.

eileen expert ironer there. It would take me longer. I am so very out of practice though - I think I have ironed twice since March 16th 2020. Literally twice. What a remarkable turn of events eh ?

@EileenGC Quite. I don't have a tumble dryer, so king sized bedding has to dry on a small rack in a small house. There's no way it can be anything other than a bit crumply.

@TheOneWithTheBigNose I sleep very quietly and don't rummage around in my bed. Fortunately I am not sharing with a man, which might make things a bit different and more sweaty.

[quote JanetHandjob]@EileenGC Quite. I don't have a tumble dryer, so king sized bedding has to dry on a small rack in a small house. There's no way it can be anything other than a bit crumply.

@TheOneWithTheBigNose I sleep very quietly and don't rummage around in my bed. Fortunately I am not sharing with a man, which might make things a bit different and more sweaty.[/quote]
Ah well mine is folded straight out of the tumble dryer and isn’t crumpled. So no need to iron. MIL irons all bedding and there is no discernible difference between my tumble dried and folded bedding and her air dried and ironed bedding.

I don't iron my bed sheets either! That said, I don't actually iron anything...out of the machine and hung up to dry! No wrinkles! My late father would have kittens. He even ironed his socks.

This thread is a lot less interesting than I had hoped from the title.